The Ellie Show

Top Christmas SongsWith Performing Artists Like...Bing Crosby...Gene Autry...Rosemary Clooney...Brook Benton and more.From White Christmas to Auld Lang Syne

Suspense - Radio Drama Presents....................the one and only Greer Garson!Don't know the actual year this show was broadcast...but she's a beauty. Now, a little bit about our talented radio personality. Did you know that she:was actually older than most of the golden-era actors and actresses who preceded her in the movie business. was born on September 29, 1904 in London (not 1908, not Ireland), a day which Jane Austen had prophetically mentioned on the very first page of "Pride and Prejudice."Now run and kid the children to listen to Twas the Night Before Christmas!Merry Christmas Folks!From Ellie

This story is about faith and letting a child grow up as a child. It's also about not letting the bad things that happen in life negatively affect everything in your life. It a story that is seen during Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.

This funny duo, William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello, were an American comedy pair whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s.Hear this hilarious Christmas show with special guest, Connie Haines.Song Included in this episode: Do you remember "Clang, clang clang went the trolley. Ring, ring, ring went the bell..."? Well, it's here!

A chilling, exciting story about inmates taking over an asylum for the insane and "operating" on a visitor to cure her headache.

In "The Bride Vanishes," a married couple must solve a mystery involving a disappearing bride and a haunted sea cave.

Alfred Hitchcock's shows were fulll of murder, romance and love. His 1940's radio broadcast, "The Lodger" was one of suspense's earlier films. (The recording of the actual show is listed in the line-up with other long ago radio shows.)

A crime decades old is brought to light again by means of a recorded confession.

Suspense offers us a spooky wax museum leading to a wartime adventure.

A suspenseful story about a man who matches his life against his evil stepfather for $25,000.

This Suspense production tells the odd story of a murder plot that never seems to work.

Suspense's "The Body Snatchers" is a light-hearted drama, but the true history on which it is based is dark and gruesome. The story is set in the early 19th century when the legal supply of human bodies for medical research in Britain was limited only to criminals given the death penalty. Enjoy this long ago radio show.

1942, "The Cave Of Ali Baba".An adventure of Lord Peter Whimsey, the gentleman crime buster. A secret voice that operates vault helps him to break up a masked society of crime. The story is based on, "The Adventurous Exploit Of The Cave Of Ali Baba" (written in 1928)

A mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. "After Despard died, under his pillow was found a strange piece of string, tied in nine knots, a witch's ladder..." What do you think it means?

Ma Perkins (or "Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins") was produced by Frank & Anne Hummert in 1933, "Ma Perkins" became the longest running radio "soap" opera. It lasted for 27 years.Ma was the owner-operator of the lumber yard in small Southern town of Rushville Center, population 4000. Story-lines pivoted around her interactions with the local townsfolk as well as the ongoing dilemmas of her three children, Evey, Fay and John. One of her children died during WWII.The kindly, trusting widow Ma Perkins with her huge heart, and great love for humanity, was forever offering her homespun philosophy to any troubled soul in need of advice. [Source:Wikipedia]

Ma Perkins episodes 5 -10.Note, the episodes are not numbered consecutively.

Don't miss the surprise ending!

"Wet Saturday" was adapted for radio by Harold Medford. Charles Vanda produced and directed.As the episode opens, the members of the Princey family explain what they might have been doing on this particular Saturday...if the curate had not stopped at their home. But he did stop there, and now he lies dead on their sun porch. The question is who killed him and why?

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock"A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Our show sends the warmest condolences to the people of Newtown, Connecticut. I am thinking of you, wishing you hope in the midst of sorrow, and comfort in the midst of pain. Praying for you...Ellie(Kid's Program)Tonight's episodes are:4 - In The Valley Of The Three Dwarfs5 - The Merry-Go-Round River6 - The Fairy Queen

Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon is a daily children's radio series that ran between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 1938. The story begins with six year old Jonathan Thomas lying in bed on Christmas Eve with his teddy bear Guz. While he is lying in bed, two elves slide down a moonbeam into his room. Guz, his teddy bear, chases the elves back up the moonbeam and Jonathan Thomas follows in order to get his Guz back. Shows are broadcast in 10-15 minute episodes. Total time of this show: 32:34Episodes 1 - 3